Thursday, August 31, 2006

Preparations...........Aug. 31, 2006

The summer's end is coming;I feel great contentment.Completion means rest.Rest means renewal,Renewal means new beginnings.Deng Ming~Dao

It truly is amazing how over the last week, the air has changed. The humidity of the summer has waned, the night is coming a bit sooner and even the sound of the bird's songs have changed.

For me, Autumn truly is a special time.....the warm days and cool sweater mornings, the smell of wood stoves starting up again. The brilliant colors of the leaves and the sound of those leaves as you walk thru them.......I just love it!

With the refreshing air change, my hands were itching to get busy once again with fiber. The fall fairs will be starting up before long, so it was time to get moving :-). The 2 black/purple hounds-tooth chenille scarves came off of the tableloom last weekend and I finished the angora silk triangle scarf the day before last.

Some silk roving was finally plied with visions of somthing scarvish in my mind.

The fingerless gloves, pictured above, are made from a blend of polwarth and angora that I spun last winter, trimmed in angora. Aaahhh....it does feel good to be playing with angora again!

Over the next few weeks there will be lots of knitting and weaving going on and the dye pots will get cranking again.

Hmmmmm.............maybe THIS is the reason why I love Autumn so much!

Oh, I'm the same way. I know Spring is supposed to be the time of rebirth, but Autumn is what does it for me. I so look forward to my wood stove! And we love winter food so much more than summer food. The feel of the air, and the leaves, and everything! You put it really well.

And I love those pictures of the heron. That must have been so thrilling!

And - yes, what IS that forky thing? It looks like a weaving thing to me, like a portable beater . . .

I have to echo the question above.. I think it's something to do with wool preparation for spinning, but that's a pretty wild guess!

I'll be taking my Rogue hoodie with me up to the cabin this weekend to finish seaming it. Now that the nights are cooler, I can't wait to have it finished so I can wear it! The other project heading north is a Blackberry Ridge sweater kit I got for Christmas last year. I'm hoping to squeeze it in before I have to start buckling down on the holiday knitting!